Author(s): Anna Posfai, Thibaud Taillefumier, and Ned S. Wingreen
A new ecosystem model, which accounts for metabolic trade-offs between coexisting species, shows that population diversity can increase even when species compete for the same limited nutrients, a finding that replicates nature.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 028103] Published Thu Jan 12, 2017